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we called the pentagon for a response. here's what they had to say "more than 200 installation voter assistance officers exist around the globe. in addition, unit voting assistance officers are available to every unit in every service all over the world. we encourage voters to double-check state-specific deadlines. miss rotunda told us and supplied numbers that absentee ballot voting by military voting is down 50%, 60% and 70% in key battleground states. there is something fishy going on here. we are going to stay with that story. now, next up on tonight's show, more than three weeks after the deadly attack on our consulate in benghazi where four americans were murdered, including the ambassador, the fbi has just now been allowed to enter the consulate for the first time. few people have been arrested. where is the justice that president obama promised? take a listen. >> today we mourn for more americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waver in our commitment to see justice is done
we called the pentagon for a response. here's what they had to say "more than 200 installation voter assistance officers exist around the globe. in addition, unit voting assistance officers are available to every unit in every service all over the world. we encourage voters to double-check state-specific deadlines. miss rotunda told us and supplied numbers that absentee ballot voting by military voting is down 50%, 60% and 70% in key battleground states. there is something fishy going on...
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take a look at some of the spending that he found buried inside the pentagon's budget. coburn said he found spending by the pentagon and other departments of funding studies of babies interacting with robots, the air force spending money on studying the color of dinosaur feathers and darpa spends $6 million on a study of storytelling techniques and the brain. coburn said he or she identified about $67.9 billion worth of spending that he thinks over ten years can be easily cut out of the pentagon budget. and i want to leave you with one of the other items that he found here. this was kind of a whopper to a lot of us here in the office. he found that the pentagon had financed a seminar discussion and the topic of that discussion was, did jesus die for the cling-ones, too? and it was a discussion of whether or not -- what the implications are for christianity if extraterrestrial life is discovered? those are your taxpayer dollars at work. >> eamon jarvis, thank you very much. >>> sure, obama care may guarantee you health insurance. but what good is it if you can't get any
take a look at some of the spending that he found buried inside the pentagon's budget. coburn said he found spending by the pentagon and other departments of funding studies of babies interacting with robots, the air force spending money on studying the color of dinosaur feathers and darpa spends $6 million on a study of storytelling techniques and the brain. coburn said he or she identified about $67.9 billion worth of spending that he thinks over ten years can be easily cut out of the...
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here's know concession, my concession to free market prince pentagons. i can accept a cap on high-end deductions to raise revenues, it's not a real flat tax reform which would lower the rates which i would prefer, but can i live with the limited deduction thing with this one caveat. every single dollar of revenue increase must be devoted to deficit reduction and not higher spending. limited government and lower spending is itself a pro-growth tax cut so that's my caveat. you want to raise revenues, limit it to deficit reduction. do not permit it to go for higher spending. my free market caveat concession. anyway, president obama promised to pull out all the troops from afghanistan by 2014 and now the military is proposing a different course. keep 10,000 troops in theater for a longer period of time. this has some important political and financial implications. we will explain and explore next up. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about low-cost investing. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 at schwab, we're committed to offering you tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 low-cost investme
here's know concession, my concession to free market prince pentagons. i can accept a cap on high-end deductions to raise revenues, it's not a real flat tax reform which would lower the rates which i would prefer, but can i live with the limited deduction thing with this one caveat. every single dollar of revenue increase must be devoted to deficit reduction and not higher spending. limited government and lower spending is itself a pro-growth tax cut so that's my caveat. you want to raise...
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i remember from my days in the military and the days in the pentagon, you have to be careful. the first reports are always -- could be misleading. >> larry, my friend, that's not credible. >> no, no. clapper is the one. he's a nonpolitical guy. are you saying clapper is lying, rich? no. >> i'm saying if there was evidence there, you know it and i know it, the american people know it because it's come out. it's not come out -- >> it has come out now. it has come out. >> the administration stonewalling. the american people deserve some transparency. furthermore, the major -- >> one at a time, please. let ambassador williamson and we'll bring you back, larry, i promise. >> okay. >> the major issue is president obama thinks terrorism can be dealt with only by drones and focused killing. as governor romney said today, it's a broader struggle between the extremist islamists and moderate factions throughout the greater middle east. as long as the president thinks that the answer is targeted drone attacks aalone, we'll continue to fail. that's why you have this turmoil. you have the f
i remember from my days in the military and the days in the pentagon, you have to be careful. the first reports are always -- could be misleading. >> larry, my friend, that's not credible. >> no, no. clapper is the one. he's a nonpolitical guy. are you saying clapper is lying, rich? no. >> i'm saying if there was evidence there, you know it and i know it, the american people know it because it's come out. it's not come out -- >> it has come out now. it has come out....
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also today the pentagon released a new timeline of the response to the attack showing it took more than 14 hours for first u.s. military unit to arrive in libya after the attack. all right. >> joining me now is syndicated radio talk show host john bachelor. john, welcome back. david petraeus is a great american, an admired american. now he has to resign from the cia, why, john? what is the meaning of this? what is the timing of this? >> i am told by several sources it was not beauty killed the beast, larry. it was benghazi. mr. petraeus misled, i'm told. misled an important committee on the hill and he did not want to return to that committee as director of the central intelligence. >> so you're saying that the extra marital affair is not the reason? it's the reason he's cited, but you're saying? fact, that's not the case? there's a whole history of these things in spy circles and secret services and blackmail and you're saying that ain't what happened? >> i'm surprised at the timing and the timing tells us a deal. i am told, larry, this is my best information that mr. be petraeus has b
also today the pentagon released a new timeline of the response to the attack showing it took more than 14 hours for first u.s. military unit to arrive in libya after the attack. all right. >> joining me now is syndicated radio talk show host john bachelor. john, welcome back. david petraeus is a great american, an admired american. now he has to resign from the cia, why, john? what is the meaning of this? what is the timing of this? >> i am told by several sources it was not beauty...
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you can't have the ryan budget where you increase pentagon spending and break the deal. lower taxes, primarily for the high end, not helping the middle class and where you are cutting things like student loans and making more expensive for kids to go to school and graduate with an albatross of debts around their necks. that's a prescription for middle class oppression, not middle class relief. >> you are absolutely right that students are facing an avalanche of debt without little prospect for jobs to get out of debt. we need to grow the economy and the dollars we don't take in taxes go g. to growth, and that's what we need. everybody needs no take that balanced approach, which is to relieve our taxpayers, make sure that those dollars stay in the economy. right now we're way out of whack, peacetime has never been higher as a percentage of gdp. >> i disagree with that. revenues lowest they've been since the eisenhower years. the real key i talk to business people about, where is the demand? consumers buying, money in the pocket, have a job, you are right about that, nan.
you can't have the ryan budget where you increase pentagon spending and break the deal. lower taxes, primarily for the high end, not helping the middle class and where you are cutting things like student loans and making more expensive for kids to go to school and graduate with an albatross of debts around their necks. that's a prescription for middle class oppression, not middle class relief. >> you are absolutely right that students are facing an avalanche of debt without little...
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it increases the pentagon budget. it slashes education funding and funding for many things that made america great -- infrastructure spending, medicine, scientific research. you cannot say that you're going to balance the budget on the backs of middle class americans without having further shrinkage of the middle class. >> what's interesting to me as well is president bill clinton said not six months ago the bush tax cuts should be extended for everyone. that's because he understands. >> he'll be up here tonight. bill clinton will say what he says. >> he said that because he understands that small businesses, many small businesses file as individuals. clinton is the man who lowers the capital gains tax rate. >> the tax issue -- >> president obama would raise it. >> it's a fundamental issue for the country. >> uh i agree with that. >> do people making over a million dollars need a tax cut? they get one. up to 250,000 people continue with the lower bush rates. over 250 you go back to the clinton rates. >> it's amazing t
it increases the pentagon budget. it slashes education funding and funding for many things that made america great -- infrastructure spending, medicine, scientific research. you cannot say that you're going to balance the budget on the backs of middle class americans without having further shrinkage of the middle class. >> what's interesting to me as well is president bill clinton said not six months ago the bush tax cuts should be extended for everyone. that's because he understands....
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nbc's chief pentagon correspondent joins us now. jim, is this the red line president obama was warning about? >> well, not quite yet. u.s. officials tell us that the syrian military is poised to use chemical weapons against their own people, and all it would take really is the final order from syrian president assad. but we have learned that as of today, all the precursored chemicals for that deadly nerve gas have in fact now been loaded on to aerial bombs, but those bombs are still in the depots. they haven't been loaded on to airplanes yet, and president assad hasn't given the order. but they're pretty close, larry, and that's why earlier this week, of course, president obama issued a very strong statement aimed at president assad saying look, if you use these weapons against your people, there will be serious consequences, but that's where somewhat of the problem lies. >> listen, i want to ask you, one of the parts of the red line statement by president obama and secretary of state clinton, that if there was movement of any chemi
nbc's chief pentagon correspondent joins us now. jim, is this the red line president obama was warning about? >> well, not quite yet. u.s. officials tell us that the syrian military is poised to use chemical weapons against their own people, and all it would take really is the final order from syrian president assad. but we have learned that as of today, all the precursored chemicals for that deadly nerve gas have in fact now been loaded on to aerial bombs, but those bombs are still in...
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agree to tax the rich more, avo avoiding pentagon cuts, the moody's down grade and the fiscal cliff. they say it's republicans giving up and adjourning next week. >> like you're facing a catastrophe and saying, we just don't have time to address that. we have to go home and campaign. >> reporter: democrats will, too. job one is getting re-elected. >> it looks like facing the fiscal cliff will have to wait again. larry, this time until november. back to you. >> many thanks, nbc steve handelsman. my message for washington tonight, why can't you all extend this congressional session in order to do the people's fiscal business and stop playing recessionary politics. it will save the country, it's time to make a deal, to avoid a ngs and stop the looming tax and fiscal cliff. think about this. here is a calendar. the moment the continuing resolution is passed, probably thursday or friday, congress will leave town for the election. nothing more will get done. then, after the election, of course, they're all ready. it all ends up to 12 days on the schedule after the election. therefore, the
agree to tax the rich more, avo avoiding pentagon cuts, the moody's down grade and the fiscal cliff. they say it's republicans giving up and adjourning next week. >> like you're facing a catastrophe and saying, we just don't have time to address that. we have to go home and campaign. >> reporter: democrats will, too. job one is getting re-elected. >> it looks like facing the fiscal cliff will have to wait again. larry, this time until november. back to you. >> many...
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the secret service is investigating, the pentagon is investigating, and there's not been a whiff of any white house aide involvement. so i don't understand what you want -- >> this is also a question of leadership, david. it's a question of leadership. of whether president obama can take expacommand of the situati and really ask for accountability from the secret service, rather than just having the white house council try to brush it away. >> wait a second, 12 people have been fired or let go or done something at the secret service. it sounds like there's accountability. tom coburn, i think a guest later, has said what he thinks the white house and the obama administration is doing is fine. you can ask him. but at this point, you're out there saying that he should be firing more secret service people? what are you -- >> no -- >> -- ask more questions. ask more questions. >> how do you know what questions he hasn't asked? listen, the secret service not only protects him, it protects his family. i'm sure he's very, very concerned with it and isn't ignoring the matter. >> i've got to let
the secret service is investigating, the pentagon is investigating, and there's not been a whiff of any white house aide involvement. so i don't understand what you want -- >> this is also a question of leadership, david. it's a question of leadership. of whether president obama can take expacommand of the situati and really ask for accountability from the secret service, rather than just having the white house council try to brush it away. >> wait a second, 12 people have been...
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the pentagon will be watching. >>> put on a passenger plane you could fly from new york to l.a. in 45 minutes. >> i miss the concord. that was where this whole thing started before the greenies got in the way. many thanks, jackie. >>> coming up, we'll get up close and personal with paul line. ryan's old boss, governor sam brownback of kansas, will join us to tell about the ryan staff experience. >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." i'm larry kudlow. in this half hour, what are soaring gas prices doing heading back to $4 a gallon nationwide? i thought it was over. wrong. it may hurt the economy more than you think. plus, what's this talk of a romney-ryan rift? democrats already seizing on it. but romney campaign cochair tim pawlenty gives us the truth. first up, paul ryan did his first solo campaign stop to rousing crowds at the iowa state fair. uh-uh heard 10,000 people. nbc's peter alexander joins us with the rundown. good evening. >> good evening from miami where mitt romney wrapped up his final event of the day in florida. the tea party favorite marco rubio joined him on
the pentagon will be watching. >>> put on a passenger plane you could fly from new york to l.a. in 45 minutes. >> i miss the concord. that was where this whole thing started before the greenies got in the way. many thanks, jackie. >>> coming up, we'll get up close and personal with paul line. ryan's old boss, governor sam brownback of kansas, will join us to tell about the ryan staff experience. >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." i'm larry...
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defense cuts, that cuts spending in other areas of government to replace the spending cuts for the pentagon so we don't have these devastating defense cuts the cbo says could be a part of triggering a recession. don't forget that we already also passed in the house an extension of all the tax policies, current law tax rates for another year to buy time for fundamental tax reform. mitt romney supports that. so what we are saying is, what we have already done, we have shown leadership in the house. the president ducked the issue. the senate hasn't even taken it up. mitt romney says we'll deal with this right away, prevent this cliff, this massive tax increase, devastating defense cuts from taking place. >> right away. >> right away. to prevent this. we'll telegraph it so the markets know. >> before other plans go into place the first thing, first order of business for romney-ryan is to deal with the tax cliff and the threat of recession. >> that's right. we need to get this economy growing. we need to get people back to work. the markets need to know. businesses need to know. employers need t
defense cuts, that cuts spending in other areas of government to replace the spending cuts for the pentagon so we don't have these devastating defense cuts the cbo says could be a part of triggering a recession. don't forget that we already also passed in the house an extension of all the tax policies, current law tax rates for another year to buy time for fundamental tax reform. mitt romney supports that. so what we are saying is, what we have already done, we have shown leadership in the...
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here is former pentagon adviser michael rubin. >> thanks for having me, michelle. >> what should the white house do in response to this? >> ultimately, what with will have to be inspected and considered is the whole nature of the reset policy. if we trace the beginnings of this crisis back it actually started with the white house reaching out to vladimir putin to russia in supporting russia's accession to the world trade organization. the amendment which had govern the a lot of u.s.-russian/soviet relations going back to the 1970s had to be replaced. it was replaced in congress by the act which set russia's worst human viets violators there should be consequences when it comes to getting visas. vladimir mute indecided to lash out to the united states by pointing a figurative rifle at the head of russia's orphans. >> we improve russia's trade relation with us, officially and then he gets upset because buried within there is a little clause that says, as you point out, the worst human rights violators should have trouble getting into the united states. how far should we go, throw, righ
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here now is former pentagon adviser michael rubin michael rubin, is he going to survive? is mohammad morsi going to survive this? >> i think he probably won't survive. this he's a gambler but he's a very bad gambler. the situation he set up is this. when he passed his decree calling for his own dictatorial powers he said they would only last as long as there was no constitution. then he presented the egyptian people with a constitution which was much more extreme than he had promised. and so he kind of figures you either take me as a dictator you take this constitution. what the egyptian people are saying, none of the above. we want plan c. >> that's the thing. the constitution, this referendum, is not that good. it has much more muslim brotherhood. it has much more dictatorial powers. it has much more shirea law than economic and legal and moral freedom, michael. that's what it seems to be. i don't see morsi retreating from that. >> you're absolutely right on that. look, it's no surprise the muslim brotherhood and islamists won the sweeping election at first because they
here now is former pentagon adviser michael rubin michael rubin, is he going to survive? is mohammad morsi going to survive this? >> i think he probably won't survive. this he's a gambler but he's a very bad gambler. the situation he set up is this. when he passed his decree calling for his own dictatorial powers he said they would only last as long as there was no constitution. then he presented the egyptian people with a constitution which was much more extreme than he had promised. and...
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this budget we just passed, the ryan budget, we increased pentagon spending. we have to be cutting it. we have to put revenues on the table in my sxru work on some spending cuts as well because there are areas we can save money but if you don't have all three of those elements, revenues -- and that can include cleaning up the tax coat, by the way. the pentagon making a contribution to debt reduction as well as domestic discretionary, we're not going to get the right -- >> you'll never get a grand design this summer. it's just not going to politically happen. you know that. marsha, here's my point. give yourself a 90-day or maybe a six-month extension on the tax cuts. what mitt romney is saying -- and we're all waiting for a romney landslide, and the senate's going to go into republican hands and the house is going to stay in republican hands and xwrofrn romney's going to have his own 100-day agenda. and then you all can hash through spending and debt reduction and entitlement reform. but right now what impacts the economy, investment and business, are these ta
this budget we just passed, the ryan budget, we increased pentagon spending. we have to be cutting it. we have to put revenues on the table in my sxru work on some spending cuts as well because there are areas we can save money but if you don't have all three of those elements, revenues -- and that can include cleaning up the tax coat, by the way. the pentagon making a contribution to debt reduction as well as domestic discretionary, we're not going to get the right -- >> you'll never get...
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if you're a senior pentagon official, a civilian, you can't own military stocks. you can't own them. that includes coca-cola. they consider coca-cola a military stock. but members of the senate armed services committee trade stock all the time. this is a case where the rule makers are writing the rules in such a way to where it excludes them. this is window dressing. and i think we need to keep the pressure up. we need real reform, not the stock act, which is just really sort of a watered-down gesture. >> all right. we'll leave it there. peter schweizer, thank you very much. coming up next, mitt romney's most important speech to date. he's trying to woo the conservative base to support him. so let's put up the word cloud. there it is. do you see the word "taxes" or "tax reform"? look very carefully. it's a wee little thing. that means he barely mentioned it. so what's his growth plan going to be? how about the other candidates? well, you know what? i'm going to try to help them when we come back. i have a few modest suggestions on supply-side pro-growth tax reform
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pentagon is beefing up its persian gulf operations. all this as iran threatens to cut off the strait of hormuz. at least that's the threat. 17 million barrels pass there every single day. and on top of all that there's syria. the president now using strong words. and there are reports of weapons of mass destruction in syria. so here now we have r. james woolsey, former director of central intelligence. he's now chairman of the foundation for defense of democracies. jim woolsey, welcome back. you honor us. i appreciate it very much. >> good to be with you, larry. >> let me just ask you, the wall street geopolitical question, sir, is closing down or choking off the straits of hormuz, that would drive oil up to $200 a barrel. is there any way that you with your diplomatic wisdom and experience and intelligence can handicap that kind of choking off of the straights of hormuz? >> i don't know. harry the horse, the damon runyon figure, said nothing what depends on humans is worth odds of more than 8/5. so i wouldn't give more than 8/5. but i
pentagon is beefing up its persian gulf operations. all this as iran threatens to cut off the strait of hormuz. at least that's the threat. 17 million barrels pass there every single day. and on top of all that there's syria. the president now using strong words. and there are reports of weapons of mass destruction in syria. so here now we have r. james woolsey, former director of central intelligence. he's now chairman of the foundation for defense of democracies. jim woolsey, welcome back....
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s ole colleagues at the pentagon have been doing. i hope it's in place now because we may need to pull the trigger. >> but you have an unfolding situation here. i mean, heck, we're sitting in washington, d.c., where you have frank gaffney leading the bomb iran caucus. we have john mccain leading the bomb syria caucus. i mean, there's a limit to what we can do before we see something that starts as potentially being a limited operation and expands to something that we should not -- we could not foresee. >> let's me just be clear about this. i come to this revery reluctantly, larry. >> cautiously and patiently. >> i'm not in the business of bombing anybody. and i personally wouldn't get into the business of bombing syria. but i will say this. there's a war coming. the question is who is going to pre-empt whom? my fear is if we keep playing as we are now that we've got time and we can do more planning and we can build more cases and we can persuade more people, i'm afraid that the pre-emption is going to come from the iranians. as i say
s ole colleagues at the pentagon have been doing. i hope it's in place now because we may need to pull the trigger. >> but you have an unfolding situation here. i mean, heck, we're sitting in washington, d.c., where you have frank gaffney leading the bomb iran caucus. we have john mccain leading the bomb syria caucus. i mean, there's a limit to what we can do before we see something that starts as potentially being a limited operation and expands to something that we should not -- we...
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agrees that that formula will be allowed to go into effect because of the large hit it takes out of the pentagon. so congress is, i believe, and i think almost everyone believes congress is not going to let that happen. >> but if you had your druthers, you would have it happen. >> i don't think that would have been my list, but i would have something happening, sure. >> all right. well, you may be right. republicans may make a run at shifting around the composition of those cuts. all right. i just want to clarify that. now, i totally agree with you, alan, that huge tax hikes are a bad idea. the marginal rates will go sky high up to 45%. let me ask you this. why does your -- i think she's a friend of yours, christine roamer, she'swriting in "the new york times," we could double tax rates and not harm the economy. doesn't that run against everything, even if you're a keynesian, run against her own work? >> first, i don't think anybody wants to double tax rates. if we went back to the clinton tax rates, as you know, the top bracket would go up to 39.6, which is not a crushing -- which is not a crus
agrees that that formula will be allowed to go into effect because of the large hit it takes out of the pentagon. so congress is, i believe, and i think almost everyone believes congress is not going to let that happen. >> but if you had your druthers, you would have it happen. >> i don't think that would have been my list, but i would have something happening, sure. >> all right. well, you may be right. republicans may make a run at shifting around the composition of those...
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i notice when the two americans got murdered in the ministry of the interior, a pentagon spokesperson gave the response that it was unacceptable. so i think we ought to be more cautious about speaking to the mob from the united states. let general allen and crocker sort these things out. we ought to have hands-off the tiller sometimes. >> you know, u.s. forces, these two guys, military advisers in the department of the interior, as i understand it. how do we train and mentor and advise whether it's in a government ministry building or out in the field when we know that so many of the locals now could be our enemies, might be coming to kill us. how does this play out? it seems like there is a loss of confidence here in the operation. >> well, there ought to be. you know, i was an adviser in vietnam a long time ago as a lieutenant. and a vietnam and we loved and trusted these guys. so this is a very unsettling situation to be out there with three or four dozen americans. to put it in context, though, larry, admittedly, most of these u.s./afghan relationships are pretty solid. our troops
i notice when the two americans got murdered in the ministry of the interior, a pentagon spokesperson gave the response that it was unacceptable. so i think we ought to be more cautious about speaking to the mob from the united states. let general allen and crocker sort these things out. we ought to have hands-off the tiller sometimes. >> you know, u.s. forces, these two guys, military advisers in the department of the interior, as i understand it. how do we train and mentor and advise...
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we have heard some tougher talk coming out of the pentagon just yesterday. the president is starting to get out in front of this. i'm hearing stories that staff -- the israeli staff and american staff are getting together. we still don't know when the united states says a nuclear weapon or when the obama administration says a nuclear weapon is unacceptable, an iranian nuclear weapon is unacceptable. what does that mean? does that mean when they finally put the bomb together? does that mean when they've gotten the ability to enrich to 90% uranium which would allow them to develop a bomb? we need to know more about this. this issue is coming to a crisis. i think the president has to lean much more further forward in his stir up on this issue, and i would be great if we could have the israelis and the americans have a meeting of the minds on how we move forward on this, because if the israelis move forward without us, we're certainly going to be involved in some way or another. >> jeffrey, in your interview with the president, did he hint that there are intelli
we have heard some tougher talk coming out of the pentagon just yesterday. the president is starting to get out in front of this. i'm hearing stories that staff -- the israeli staff and american staff are getting together. we still don't know when the united states says a nuclear weapon or when the obama administration says a nuclear weapon is unacceptable, an iranian nuclear weapon is unacceptable. what does that mean? does that mean when they finally put the bomb together? does that mean when...
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business community, the pentagon saying they need to work with american companies in order to fend off the next attack. >> we've got to work with the business community to develop baseline standards for our most critical private sector infrastructure, our power plants, our water treatment facilities, our glass pipelines. >> and carl i spoke to folks over at the chamber of commerce this morning, the chamber says they support the broad outline here of what panetta is trying to do but they're concerned about increased regulation on american companies that could be onerous. they want to find some kind of solution to this problem where everyone can agree but companies not necessarily jumping on board automatically with what leon panetta was saying last night, carl. >> it comes in the same week where the house support committee came out on huawei. they're getting more traffic in the beltway. >> the burden is on ceos and executives to find out how much is their responsibilities, buying telecommunications, do they have a burden to prove the telecom gear doesn't have chinese back doors that can
business community, the pentagon saying they need to work with american companies in order to fend off the next attack. >> we've got to work with the business community to develop baseline standards for our most critical private sector infrastructure, our power plants, our water treatment facilities, our glass pipelines. >> and carl i spoke to folks over at the chamber of commerce this morning, the chamber says they support the broad outline here of what panetta is trying to do but...
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the question is how much are we read pentagon to what's happened over the last couple weeks. are we reading too much in to this move. and remember where we were a year or two ago. >> how can hone 30 yecan money now be cheaper than five years from now. >> you're geeking me out. let's tee a quick look at the dollar board. i'm always focusing on the euro because of the planned vacation this paris. off slightly against the euro. and let's take a look for our gold bug friends where gold is headed. rate now 1649. >> down about 1%. a tough run in the last couple weeks. >> time for the global markets report. rebecca meehan is standing by in london. and she's really in london. you're hot going to walk across the set. i don't know if you saw yesterday, but ross retended that he was there and then all of a sudden, can he flying through and he was sitting there and it was very confusing for all of us. >> yeah, i'm sure it was. he's pretty clever that way. but, no, i am actually in london. i'm in a building with no windows, but i'm 100 meters from st. paul's cathedral. but looking at what
the question is how much are we read pentagon to what's happened over the last couple weeks. are we reading too much in to this move. and remember where we were a year or two ago. >> how can hone 30 yecan money now be cheaper than five years from now. >> you're geeking me out. let's tee a quick look at the dollar board. i'm always focusing on the euro because of the planned vacation this paris. off slightly against the euro. and let's take a look for our gold bug friends where gold...
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. >> let's talk markets and then we'll talk about that commit pentagon. one week charts whether it's tens 30rs, several basis points lower on the week on both of those maturities. the germany 10 year bond in europe is young changed. trading down historic lows in the 1.60. the point of the story whether it's chinese data or issues about funding in europe, they are all keeping interest rates low where in the u.s. qe seems to have the least amount of favoritism in terms of a program that will make any kind of resurgence. as far as what's going on here, this is why america is great. the cme group, the traders, they have an issue. they are working it out. and throughout the day we'll bring you updates. we'll really bring the point home at 11:05. santelli exchange. we'll talk to both sides. they have issues with block trading, fairness, price discovery. the process here is very admirable. but the volume in the pit today is not due to obviously this issue. back to you. >> all right. let's check out the latest for energy. let's go to bertha coombs. >> reporter: o
. >> let's talk markets and then we'll talk about that commit pentagon. one week charts whether it's tens 30rs, several basis points lower on the week on both of those maturities. the germany 10 year bond in europe is young changed. trading down historic lows in the 1.60. the point of the story whether it's chinese data or issues about funding in europe, they are all keeping interest rates low where in the u.s. qe seems to have the least amount of favoritism in terms of a program that...